MPs have launched a scathing attack on the UK Border Agency over its failure to prevent people abusing the student visa system to enter the country illegally.
In a report published today, the public accounts committee is fiercely critical of the agency’s failure to put in adequate checks and balances before moving to a points-based system of awarding student visas in 2009.
The agency was already under heavy scrutiny after last week stripping London Metropolitan University of its right to admit non-EU students because of its alleged failures to monitor foreign students properly. The university announced yesterday that it would challenge the decision.